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Adult
April 9, 2008
 
Not appropriate.
My 10 year-old granddaughter read this! She loved it and recommended I read it. I was appalled at the language I found in this book. God did not put me on this Earth to stand by when my granddaughter reads dirty novels! It makes me sick to think that some parents nowadays actually value their child's happiness in place of keeping them away from fowl language! Children should not be allowed to read this book! Not only does this book make multiple crude references to that which God does not want me to speak of, but it portrays running away from summer camp as a good thing!

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Adult
April 9, 2008
 
My Thoughts on The Goats.
I thought this book was very intriguing. A story about a boy and a girl, marooned on an island in the middle of a lake. That just captures the imagination right there. The nudity in the beginning will capture any perverse teenagers mind, and may even have them hooked on the book for a while. Now, the nudity for me, I didn't even get phased by it. I've been around way too many things for this to bother me, so I was alright with it. I'm sure parents would think that this is soemthing wrong or unright, but if a child is to learn about the ways that most people act, tehn they must either read about it, or figure it out the hard way, by observation. A parent can teach a child, or he can figure it out by himself, and possibly go into the wrong direction with it. The alcohol is not a prblem. I myself have never drunk alcohol, nor will I until it is legal for me to. Any sexual content was a little distracting to me, but if I were basically stripped naked and the only thing I could grab to cover me was a shirt that has some pretty graphic content, I think we all know which I'd choose. Of course, I would try to get rid of it as soon as possible, but there's nothing I'd be able to do at that point. ...That's about it. This is my first review on any book online. I thought the book had a beautiful storyline, showing the affection of a boy to a girl, without the whole use of sexual fission to completely destroy the beauty of it.

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Adult
April 9, 2008
 
brutal, tender, beautiful
I thought that this book was beautiful. The kids are young enough and innocent enough that sex is not an issue, there are a couple of d-words, but there is a lot of love. (I only mention the sex and language because this site seems concerned about these issues.) Two sensitive kids react to the brutality of hazing, by running, and end up clinging to each other in the most heartwarming way. I loved it. Exciting, deep, and powerful.

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Adult
September 24, 2010
 
i liked this book. i did not think it was that bad even now.ya there is kids striped and all of that but its still good.

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Teen, 15 years old
October 25, 2010
 
Not really badly written, but certainly nothing to praise a ton.
I am in an advanced program at school, and for a school assignment I read The Goats. It wasn't that bad a book to be perfectly frank, but it was certainly not good. Laura, the girl who is abandoned on Goat Island without her clothes, is at the beginning a good enough character with some fight in her. Characters are supposed to grow in books, but in The Goats Laura especially shrinks. She and Howie steal, lie, and partake in embezzlement. With a twelfth grade reading level, I was disappointed in Brock Cole's novel. Though The Goats caught and held my attention, I was not sad to finish the book as I often am with books I enjoyed reading. At the risk of getting a lot of people to read this book, I was unfortunately reminded of Stephanie Meyer's book series Twilight.

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Teen, 14 years old
November 8, 2011
 
great
this book is veeerrrrrryyyyyy gggggggggoooooooooooooooooooooooooodddddddddddddddddddd<3

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